DIR ECTO RATE FOR ANALYSIS WHO IS THE DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS 1’he Defense IntelHgence Agency DIA Directorate for Analysis Dl is a team of dedicated professionals I committed to aelivering decis ve advantage to the Department of Defense in supcort of natical securh objectives Whether answerinc our customers’ needs for support to current military operations or develop ing long-term strategic assessments that identify futLre threats for policymakers Dl executes this mission each and every day Our enduring goal is clear to produce quality and relevant all-source intelligence Success demands that we focus on our core missions strencthen our analytic capabilities invest in cir people and foster a culture of innovation and excellence We do all of this in support of our customers who include Mititaty Decisionmakers and Wartighters Dl provides strategic intelligence identifying opportunities and challenges for military commanders sHowing them to decide the best course of acticn on future military operations National and Defense Policymakers Dl supports senicr policymakers by describing the strategic environment and identifying the opportunities and challenges for policy formation Acquisition Community Dl assesses technoogy trends and provides threat projections on future generations of weaponry and the countermeasures necessary to protect U S interests WV V DIA MIL DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS UNCLAIFIED D Organizatons DI offices cover regional functional and transnational issues FIGURE 1 Current Structure in the Directorate for Analysis -__ Depità Vice Depity Director I Mñ I— Strategies - -z —- - JI fl3J JJ frnrj f JJ_n i — — Ljj rJ jr J Jhj rnJj n r 4 ‘yiJLJ I f ftiii 1L JJjJ3f - 4u _ lii n_rr3u rjJi I —-— j_p Lr i1in ‘ JjiIE D Partners Defense Intelligence Analysis Program DIA Deputy The Department of Defense DoD intelligence analysis enterprise is managed by DIA The Director for Analysis serves as the Functional Manager for Analysis FM A managing the enterprise analysis and via the Defense Intelligence Analysis Program fDIAP DIAP establishes levels of effort for Intelligence division of labor among defense intelligence analytic organizations based on the National capacity the Priorities Framework NIP9 and Defense Intelligence Priorities Framework DIPF In this in Deputy Director for Analysis is responsible for overseeing defense intelligence all-source analysis DIA the service intelligence centers and the combatant command intelligence centers FIGURE 2 Service Centers and Combatant Commands European Command GE National Air Space Intelligence_Center OH — — - ffice of Naval Intelligence MD Strategic Command NE efense lntelHgence Agency DC Northern Command 5 Pacific Con Command FL Southern Command FL _l Ground Inte % in i t Forces Comn e Center ’ 1 UN C LASS I F I ED International In addition to DIAP partners international partners provide invaluable intelligence within to provide the intelligence required to prevent— rather than respond to—potential crises around a collaborative enterprise Dl has longstanding cooperative relationships with its international partners and fosters an environment for de fense intelligence analysis in which collaboration the world Defense Intelligence Officers DIA has established Defense Intelligence Officers DIOs for regional areas paralleling the National Intelligence Officer structure is an integral part of conducting business Under the DIA Strategic Plan Dl builds relation ships with knowledgeable and capable foreign partners to enhance access to information and The DIOs represent the Director of DIA and FM A substantively in community fora interact with customers throughout DoD and the U S perspectives otherwise unavailable to our intel government guide intelligence community analysis on enduring issues and assist in devel ligence analysts oping overall strategies for foreign relationships Additionally Dl works with its partners to focus on the intent of foreign leaders and adversaries WHAT THE DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS DOES Key Product Types In 2010 DINDI introduced a consolidated prod uct line to better respond to customer needs The Defense Intelligence Defense Intelligence Report DIR Defense Intelligence Study DIS Digest DID highlights analysis of the most sig I Defense Intelligence Reference Document DIRD nificant developments on foreign intentions military I Much of Dl’s intelligence work is stored in online databases that support analytic production Core Knowledge Online CKO is Dl’s official web portal and database providing access to all capabilities and threats to US forces i In addition to the DID DI provides written products to support of Dl’s authoritative intelligence including core knowledge and traditional finished intelligence products senior level customers on a variety of issues Other examples include the Modernized In tegrated Database MIDB Military Equip ment Parametrics and Engineering Database MEPED and the Combating Terrorism Knowl Products include the Global Strategic Watch GSW edge Base maintained by the Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combating Terrorism J ITF-CT Defense Intelligence Note DIN 0 UNCLASSIFIED AnaMic and Production Evaluation The Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI has established Intelligence Community IC analytic standards through a series of intel association with the historian’s office and a bi weekly listing of events in the Washington area have drawn attention from throughout the IC ligence community directives These principles serve as a framework to develop finished Intel Analytic Focus Areas The DIAP community including DI is aligned with the National Intelligence Priorities Frame work fNIPF the IC’s mechanism for establishing ligence Dl’s product evaluation board tracks performance against these analytic standards and DIA has implemented these standards in its and maintaining national priorities The NIPF represents a unified IC-wide statement of cur training and education courses The Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst SDIA Council supports Dl leadership by serving as a senior analytic sounding board on the most rent analytic priorities to customers Dl is developing a series of strategic research plans that align with high priority countries and topics identified by NIPF These plans identify important analytic issues within Dl DI is implementing the IC directive on analytic outreach which defines “outreach” as engage ment with individuals external to the IC to ex intelligence priorities and gaps to better guide Dl’s analytic work In addition these research plans will help DI shape international exchanges plore ideas and alternative perspectives to gain new insights to generate new knowledge or to obtain new information A speaker’s series in for particular topic areas and strengthen appli cable international analytic partnerships THE DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS WORKFORCE Workforce Demographics The Dl workforce is composed of high caliber intelligence professionals with a variety of back grounds and experiences all of which strength en the defense intelligence enterprise Nearly last five years with much of that growth coming from young talented personnel At the same time we continue to rely on our senior analysts and managers who bring a wealth of experience half of Dl’s civilian workforce has attained mas ters or doctorate degrees and over one-quarter has previously served in the U S military All military services Army Air Force Navy Marine and years of knowledge on specific regions or issues In an effort to recognize and nurture our workforce’s innate talent and to motivate future leaders DI has established a unique mentorship Corps and Coast Guard are represented in Dl program where junior employees are able to “shadow” a senior DI leader during the perfor mance of their daily duties Recruitment Dl seeks the best and the brightest for its work force Its civilian ranks have grown 60% in the 0 UNCLASSIFIED Professiona Deveopment FIGURE 3 Dl On-board Population Mix Dl offers a multitude of opportunities for its em ployees to expand their horizons and develop a diversified set of skills and abilities These opportunities include unique training programs choices in continuing education and careerbroadening assignments Contractor 25%- Dl has established an analytic development program that spans the analyst’s entire career Defense Intelligence Strategic Analysis Pro - gram DISAP It is designed to advance analytic tradecraft implement innovative analytic meth ods and align with ODNI’s published analytic standards Consisting of three levels of training it commences with an introductory familiariza tion phase for all new analysts that creates a Civilian 56% common foundation Figure 5 illustrates the purpose of each DISAP phase Specific training is also available for developing Dl’s analytic management The training is FIGURE 4 Relative Numbers of DI Workforce Regional Functional Center t I 0 UNCLASSIFIED gies and other experiences including rotations and deployments Some key rotations include joint duty assignments throughout the DoD and the IC rotations to the Joint Staff J2-Director for Intelligence as well as assignment to the President’s Daily Brief staff Additionally 19% of Dl’s workforce gained operational experience and deployed to the Middle East and the rest of the globe in fiscal year 2009 Deployments offer analysts a wealth of knowledge practical expe rience and real-time engagement that will serve them for the length of their careers Over time an individual will progress through a series of training and development milestones intended to hone analytic and management skills Dl’s professional development strategy ensures that our workforce develops the deep provided to those who establish policy and guidance for the production and review of expertise in the research writing and briefing skills essential to provide intelligence analysis that gives a decisive advantage to the DoD in support of national security objectives finished analysis Dl employees are encouraged to further their education and enhance their overall knowledge abilities and skills through several programs The National Defense Intelligence College Improving Access to Information Along with partners in the IC Dl recognizes the value of analytic collaboration and invests in technologies to support and enhance its NDIC facilitates knowledge sharing in the IC through teaching research and outreach NDIC offers both undergraduate and graduate tradecraft and information sharing techniques to solve challenging problems and to support customers in the warfighting policymaking and acquisition communities On behalf of ODNI programs that offer degrees in the science of intelligence Additional professional enrichment courses are offered through the Joint Military Dl led the development of analysts’ functional requirements for A-Space the flagship initiative of the DNI’s Analytic Transformation program Intelligence Training Center other intelligence agencies military senior service schools and long-term study programs with civilian universi A-Space provides collaborative tools to help analysts reach across organizational and geo graphic boundaries to share insights access a broader range of information and hone their ties Analysts and managers in DI can advance their careers through career-broadening op portunities such as leading research projects establishing community-wide project teams analytic insights Analysts rely on Web 2 0 ca pabilities such as Intellipedia a wikipedia-based service provided via Intelink to create edit add collaborating on analytic and collection strate 0 UNCLASSIFIED an analyst’s articles by subject matter experts and foreign disclosure officers prior to release as DIA’s “finished intelligence” products These to or change each others’ entries in a shared process of creating and vetting analytic insights Wiki technology combined with Dl’s unique business processes have resulted in “wiki4CK ” initiatives enhance analysts’ ability to identify define and share insights on the difficult intel a collaborative intelligence production environ ment that allows for the review and approval of ligence problems that Dl is asked to solve FIGURE 5 Analyst Training and Development Plan Entry into DIA 0 4 UNCLASSIFIED WE ARE THE DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS delivering analysis that gives our customers a 6 Creativity and innovation in solving prob lems discovering facts and creating knowl decisive advantage Dl uniquely provides under edge We are intelligence professionals committed to standing of foreign threat or more specifically We ensure the quality of our analysis—our tradecraft and our profession We have a intention and capabilities In doing so we tell our customers what we know what we don’t responsibility to employ the best possible tradecraft in our work leverage all sources of know what we think and ensure they under stand the difference information collaborate with other analysts constantly reexamine our thinking and refresh We execute our mission within the framework of DIA’s values Our values define the enduring ourselves through training and development We have the confidence to take risks and pres character of our workforce—they provide a con sistent identity that transcends individual lead ent our best judgments to our customers We recognize success while accepting and learning ers technological change and even the nature of the threat we face Our values shape the way from failure We acknowledge a responsibility to share and an obligation to collaborate We we go about our work and how we accomplish hold ourselves accountable measure our per formance and constantly seek ways to improve our mission 1 Service to our fellow citizens our analysis 2 Dedication strength and urgency of pur pose to provide for our nation’s defense 7 Teamwork through international and exter nal partnerships 3 Customer focus in the intelligence services 8 Leadership at all levels within defense in telligence and the Intelligence Community we provide We seek to provide our customers timely objective and cogent intelligence to answer We leverage the multi-disciplinary contribution of our partners—across the defense intelligence their needs We best serve our customers by focusing our analytic resources on our unique enterprise and the IC We lead in making the all-source analytic process drive the actions of the rest of the community We lead in the as mission and provide the products and services that will increase their confidence at the point sessment of foreign military art and science strategy doctrine and force requirements We of decision Our most important metric is their confidence—in us and in our judgments—so they can succeed in their efforts collaborate with all components of the IC to ensure the complete fulfillment of our custom ers’ needs 4 Integrity and accountability in all of our ac tions and activities We are Dl delivering analysis for decisive ad vantage to the Department of Defense 5 Inquiry truth and continuous learning WWW DIA MIL 0 DIRECTORATE FOR ANALYSIS